There is less than zero evidence of negative consequences of climate change: people are wealthier, healthier, and better protected from nature than at any point in human history -- because of wealth, not the climate....We have been promised wildfires, drought, mega storms, pandemics and plagues, mass extinctions, wars, famine, biblical levels of rain, a breakdown of society and economic ruin. These are generally the (failed) prophecies of politicians and green activists, rather than the IPCC. But the IPCC itself does seem to have consistently over-estimated warming and its consequences, and it has been extremely quiet in the face of such claims and about its own errors and inadequacies. The IPCC sells a political story -- confidence in the ability to predict the future -- to politicians. Until this is understood, climate change alarmism will continue to run wild and unchecked through the corridors of power.

Godfrey Bloom is an independent member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber